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Show Author's Faith in His Book Brought Results Aspiring to be an author, Jonathan Leonard wrote a story of Cape Cod life and submitted It to a publisher, who promptly returned It and thereupon there-upon he sent It to several other publishers pub-lishers one after the other with the same result and finally becoming discounted, dis-counted, at the age of fifty he set about to print the book through bla own endeavors and by bla own hands. He purchased a small printing press and fet the type himself, printing two pages at a time until the work was completed. Then bo went out and learned something about bookbinding and bound 100 volumes, mainly for the purpose of observing the formalities formali-ties of the copyright laws. The accumulation ac-cumulation of volumes was distributed distribut-ed among bis friends and finally a copy fell into the hnnds of one of the publishers who bad passed npon It before and he sow the merits of the work and Immediately arranged tor another edition. In the meantime Mr. Leonard had written another book and the same publisher baa contracted to handle It also. Exchange, |
